Bigger Fonts mod for Baldur's Gate 2

This mod offers bigger fonts for Baldur's Gate 2 SOA/TOB , tutu/BGT. The fonts will be used in the dialog window, floating text, item descriptions and Journal. Recommended for resolutions higher or equal to 1024x768.

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To install this mod, simply extract everything into your main BG2 directory and run the Setup-BG2-Bigger-Fonts.exe. If you want to use the widescreen mod then the fonts should be installed AFTER the widescreen mod. To uninstall, run the executable again and choose uninstall.

Many thanks to haen for his Font Bam Generator. These fonts are made for the ENGLISH VERSION, they may work on other languages like French, German or Spanish, but it's not guaranteed. Don't ask me to support other language versions or provide different sizes, I won't bother with this mod again. I'm just offering it to you since I had it for a long time in my hard drive.

EDIT:Some nice people have provided fonts that fully support their Language versions. Just extract these into the override folder of your main BGII directory AFTER you have installed the Bigger Fonts Mod.

Sephiroth 1311 has created an excellent ITALIAN font. Which can also be used for the FRENCH version and possibly other Latin languages.

djc has provided a POLISH font, only for the dialog window. If you want the original fonts for the floating text and item descriptions, simply delete toolfont.bam and floattxt.bam from the override directory.

DenimTornado has provided Russian fonts with Cyrillic support.

(If Winrar refuses to open the rar file, use 7zip. Alternatively you can download a zipped version from here)

- The Italian fonts should be used for French version of the game, too (Accentuated characters like à/è/é/ê are absent from the english version of the fonts. The file should probably renamed to "Latin fonts" instead, or something like this ?- These fonts might be a tad too big for a 1280x1024 display : See below screenshot.

Ghostdog, if you ever create another slightly less big version of these fonts, I'll shall offer you my hypothetic first born child.

Winrar's giving me an "archive is in unknown format or damaged" error when I try to open the BG2-Bigger-Fonts.rar file attached to ghostdog's first post. This is regardless of whether I try downloading it first then opening it, or opening it straight from the page, and regardless of browser used. I've tried a few other .rar files, old ones on the local drive and new ones freshly downloaded, and Winrar has no problem opening those. I've tried some other .rar extraction utilities, and they've not been able to open it either.

Yeah for some strange reason winrar shows an error (previously it opened fine, maybe it's because if the site's relocation). 7zip on the other hand opens it without problems. I'll re-upload it here in zip format :

Anyone interested in picking this up and tweaking it so the text is a little smaller (and perhaps a font more similar to the original, too)? I'd do it myself but I have no idea how. Ideally, the mod would allow the user to choose between 3-4 different font sizes.

Also, you may want to add some accented glyphs to the English font - as even in the English version of the game, some mods use accented charcaters, and show up blank. Eg: CúChoinneach from DSotC shows up as C Choinneach, Kivan uses "näive" in one of his banters, etc.

At this point, I'm not really doing much Baldur's Gate related. More focused on Skyrim modding and the Born of Legend tabletop roleplaying game. Don't expect much activity here.

Well I tried using haen's fontbam generator in the linked thread to create a new font to put in the override after installing ghostdog's Bigger Fonts mod. But I can't make it work. What I wanted to try was to use the font Constantia (regular, at size 12) which comes with Windows 7. It looks somewhat similar to the original font used in BG, I think. But I can't make this work. Anyone?

I finally succeeded in making some new fonts. These are much smaller than the fonts included with this mod, yet still quite legible at 2560x1440 resolution which is what I use.

Sorry for the huge image. To use these, install the mod in the first post (after Widescreen mod) and then just put the files in your override, replacing what's currently there.

Try them out and tell me what you think. Also, let me know if you have any suggestions for better fonts to use. I did try to find the original BG text font but was unable to do so, so I chose some other nice looking fonts (IMO). Please tell me if you know the name of the original, though.

Hi.
I tried to install this MOD onto GemRB. Unfortunatelly it doesn`t work.
Good news is that GemRB allows to use any TTF font for dialogues etc. but I don`t want any other font (I would like to have original font but slightly bigger)